Video: https://vimeo.com/228366361 Many humans don't settle for just barely scraping by; they improve themselves towards self-actualization. Could we do the same at the level of civilization? Rather than merely avoiding disasters, let's truly reach for the stars. This talk describes a decentralized system for humanity to collectively graph the steps towards self actualization, from conquering malaria and a shared planetary database, to universal basic income and even asteroid mining. But vision is not enough. We need execution, and the cash to power it. There's a new tool: the blockchain token launch. It's a low-friction way for a community of aspirational thinkers to fund big ideas with big dollars, and to benefit from the success of those ideas. We start with a token launch for the map itself. That in turn propels token launches for the first steps of the map, which in turn propels the second steps, and so on. Stretch your mind. How big can you dream?

1. Trent McConaghy
@trentmc0
Starships and tokens:
A path to human self-actualization

2. Humans

5. Self-actualization

6. Self-
actualization
Esteem
Love/belonging
Safety
Physiological (food, ..)
Not surviving 
Maslow’s Hierarchy (+Darwin awards)

7. Barely
getting by
Self-
actualization
Esteem
Love/belonging
Safety
Physiological
Not surviving

8. Each human can
aspire to this!
(Be like Ben)
Self-
actualization
Esteem
Love/belonging
Safety
Physiological
Not surviving

9. Tokens

10. 2 years ago
A nonprofit with no product
Started by a 20 year old
Raised $20M
Now
It’s a $30B ecosystem

11. 14 weeks ago
A startup with no product
With no customers
With no real IP
With 5 employees
Raised $ on a $300M Valuation
1 week later, worth $3.5B

12. What’s going on?

13. It started
with
Bitcoin,
And
evolved

14. ICO (Initial Coin Offering) aka Token Launch
What:
• Raise $ at the beginning of a project
• For tokens in a network / ecosystem
• Everyone wants token value↑, therefore incentives within the community
(token owners) are aligned
• Tokens are liquid immediately on exchanges. “Exit” day 1. (Hence the $$)
Ways to frame:
• An IPO, but crowd-funded
• Kickstarter, but for real assets or securities
• VC investing, for the masess

15. Some Civilization Worries

16. Climate change

17. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hir
oshima_Aftermath_-_cropped_Version.jpg
Nuclear war

18. Asteroid strike
https://www.flickr.com/photos/will_spark/8603571212

19. AIs taking jobs

20. AIs taking “creative” jobs too

21. Idea: Maslow’s Hierarchy For Civilization
Self-
actualization
Esteem
Love/belonging
Safety
Physiological
Not surviving

22. Avoiding disaster =
barely getting by
Physiological
Not surviving
Maslow’s Hierarchy For Civilization

23. Self-
actualization
As a civilization,
let’s aspire to this!

24. What does self-actualization
of civilization mean?

25. TED talks for all?

26. Exploring the cosmos?
OR:
Whatever you make of it!

27. Recent civilization developments

28. Shared planetary
network (Internet), document (Web)

29. Virtual Reality

30. Augmented Reality

31. Big data

32. AI that improves with data: deep learning

33. Some next steps
for civilization

34. Clean drinking water
Waterless toilets
Solve malaria
Solve TB
Physiological
Not surviving

35. Go post-capital, via UBI
(And save humanity from AI-catalyzed human revolution)
Safety
Physiological

36. Trustworthy land titles in 3rd world countries
(precondition to solve poverty – ref DeSoto)
Safety

37. Typing via Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI)

38. Mainstream typing by BCI
sming
= silent messaging
= sending text or voice
by thinking about it

39. Shared planetary e-gold: Bitcoin

40. Shared planetary
file system, database, processing

41. Low-cost to low-orbit space:
Ansari XPRIZE

42. Low-cost to useful space:
reusable rockets e.g. SpaceX

43. Super low-cost to useful space: space elevators

44. 1 person on Mars
1K people on Mars
1M people on Mars
Mars not reliant on earth

45. Super low-cost to Mars
and back:
Gravity-assist cyclers

46. Energy in space: Asteroid mining

47. Explore the cosmos?
Travel time to Proxima Centauri:
81,000 years (Oops)
“Sending canned primates .. was
never going to end happily.” –
Charles Stross

48. First, migrate our minds onto better substrate
Then explore the cosmos
Uploads
(mirror our
minds)
Bandwidth++
Via BCI

49. “Dismantle the moon!
Dismantle Mars!
Build masses of free-flying
nanocomputing processor nodes...
Matrioshka brains,
Russian doll Dyson spheres
the size of solar systems.”
-Charles Stross
Reshape
the cosmos!

50. How do we organize the ideas?

51. Inspiration: Technology Tree from Civilization V (Game)

52. Clean drinking
water
Waterless
toilets
Solve malaria
Solve TB
Reduced
poverty:
99% can eat
Trustworthy
land titles
…
…
Graph for reducing poverty (99% can eat)

53. Un-
scalable
AI
AI that
improves
with data
(deep
learning)Big data
AI takes
creative
jobs
Scalable
creative
AI
The 99%
can’t eat
AI takes
basic
jobs
The 99%
have no
income
Graph where AI means the 99% can’t eat (oops)
Reduced
poverty:
99% can eat

54. Un-
scalable
AI
AI that
improves
with data
(deep
learning)Big data
AI takes
creative
jobs
Scalable
creative
AI
The 99%
can eat
AI takes
basic
jobs
Go post-
capital
(UBI)
The 99%
have no
income
The 99%
can’t eat
Graph where 99% can eat, despite AI (thanks UBI)

55. Shared
planetary
info net
(Internet)
Shared
planetary
document
(Web)
Shared
planetary
e-gold (BTC)
“Blockchain”
Shared
planetary file
system (IPFS)
Shared
planetary
database (IPDB)
Shared
planetary
processing (Eth)
Shared
planetary
computer
Graph for a shared planetary computer

56. VR
“Overlay”
AR
goggles “Repaint”
AR
Basic
BCI
Fast-
type
BCI
AR
contacts
SMing
DropBox
your brain
YouTube
your brain
BCI BW >
in-brain
New mind
substrate
Shared
planetary
computer
Graph for a new mind substrate

57. Basic
space
flight
Low-$ to
low-orbit
space
Low-$ to
useful space
(reuse rockets)
1 person on
Mars
1K people
on Mars
1M
people
on Mars
Mars not
dependent
on Earth
Super-low
$ Earth-
Mars (cyclers)
Graph for independence from 1 planet, via Mars
Super-low $
to useful
space (elev)
Energy in
space
(mine asteroids)

58. 1 person on
Mars
Super-low $
to useful
space (elev)
1K people
on Mars
1M
people
on Mars
Mars not
dependent
on Earth
Super-low
$ Earth-
Mars (cyclers)
Explore
the
cosmos
Reshape
the
cosmos
Graph to explore the cosmos, then reshape it
BCI BW >
in-brain New mind
substrateShared
planetary
computer Energy in
space
(mine asteroids)
Basic
space
flight
Low-$ to
low-orbit
space
Low-$ to
useful space
(reuse rockets)

59. The Civilization Graph. Call it “The Map”
Clean drinking
water
Waterless
toilets
Solve malaria
Solve TB
Reduced
poverty: 99%
can eat
Trustworthy
land titles
…
…
Un-
scalable
AI
AI that
improves
with data
(deep
learning)Big data
AI takes
creative
jobs
Scalable
creative
AI
AI takes
basic
jobs
Go post-
capital
(UBI) The 99%
can eat
The 99%
have no
income
Shared
planetary
info net
(Internet)
Shared
planetary
document
(Web)
Shared
planetary
e-gold (BTC)
“Blockchain”
Shared planetary
file system (IPFS)
Shared planetary
database (IPDB)
Shared planetary
processing (Eth)
Shared
planetary
computer
VR
“Overlay” AR
goggles
“Repaint” AR
Basic
BCI
Fast-
type
BCI
AR contacts
SMing
DropBox your
brain
YouTube your
brain
BCI BW >
in-brain
New mind
substrate
Basic
space
flight
Low-$ to low-
orbit space
Low-$ to useful
space
(reuse rockets)
1 person on
Mars
1K people on
Mars
1M people
on Mars
Mars not
dependent
on Earth
Super-low $
Earth-Mars
(cyclers)
Super-low $ to
useful space
(elev)
Energy in space
(mine
asteroids)
Explore
the
cosmos
Reshape
the
cosmos
This is just a starting point.
Crowd-source this…

60. How do we pay for the ideas?

61. How: get donors, build

62. How: Get donors, give prizes (10x lever)

63. Make $$$, then give it back

64. Problems
• Doesn’t tap into the community that wants the service
• Relatively small $ - it’s a $ sink, not an investment opportunity
• Only covers one step forward, not context beyond
Clean drinking water
Waterless toilets
Solve malaria
Solve TB
Reduced
poverty: 99%
can eat
Trustworthy
land titles
…
…
Un-
scalable
AI AI that
improves with
data
(deep
learning)
Big data
AI takes
creative
jobs
Scalable
creative
AI
AI takes
basic
jobs
Go post-
capital
(UBI)
Means to gather
UBI $ (??)
Means to
distribute UBI $
Public shared e-
gold (eg BTC)
The 99%
can eat
The 99%
have no
income
Shared
planetary info
net
(Internet)
Shared planetary
document
(Web)
Shared planetary
encyclopedia
(Wikipedia)
Shared planetary
e-gold (BTC)
“Blockchain”
Shared planetary file
system (IPFS)
Shared planetary database
(IPDB)
Shared planetary processing
(Eth)
Shared planetary
computer
V
R
“Overlay” AR
goggles
“Repaint” AR
Basi
c
BCI
Fast-
type
BCI
AR contacts
SMing
DropBox your
brain
YouTube your
brain
BCI BW>
in-brain
New mind
substrate
Basic
space
flight
Low-$ to low-orbit
space
Low-$ to useful
space
(reuse rockets)
1 person on Mars
1K people on
Mars
1M people
on Mars
Mars not
dependent
on Earth
Super-low $
Earth-Mars
(cyclers)
Super-low $ to
useful space(elev)
Energy in space
(mine asteroids)
Explore the cosmos Reshape the cosmos

65. Let’s revisit tokens…
• Tokenized ecosystems are public utilities
• So far, for internet infrastructure. E-gold etc. For bits.
• But they could be about atoms too!
• Let’s use them in The Map…

66. How to fund The Map: each node accepts donations, with BTC address
When $ > threshold and previous nodes solved, launch token.
Clean
drinking
water
Waterless
toilets
Solve malaria
Solve TB
Reduced
poverty: 99%
can eat
Trustworthy
land titles
…

67. Clean drinking
water
Waterless
toilets
Solve malaria
Solve TB
Reduced
poverty: 99%
can eat
Trustworthy
land titles
…
…
Un-
scalable
AI
AI that
improves
with data
(deep
learning)Big data
AI takes
creative
jobs
Scalable
creative
AI
AI takes
basic
jobs
Go post-
capital
(UBI) The 99%
can eat
The 99%
have no
income
Shared
planetary
info net
(Internet)
Shared
planetary
document
(Web)
Shared
planetary
e-gold (BTC)
“Blockchain”
Shared planetary
file system (IPFS)
Shared planetary
database (IPDB)
Shared planetary
processing (Eth)
Shared
planetary
computer
VR
“Overlay” AR
goggles
“Repaint” AR
Basic
BCI
Fast-
type
BCI
AR contacts
SMing
DropBox your
brain
YouTube your
brain
BCI BW >
in-brain
New mind
substrate
Basic
space
flight
Low-$ to low-
orbit space
Low-$ to useful
space
(reuse rockets)
1 person on
Mars
1K people on
Mars
1M people
on Mars
Mars not
dependent
on Earth
Super-low $
Earth-Mars
(cyclers)
Super-low $ to
useful space
(elev)
Energy in space
(mine
asteroids)
Explore
the
cosmos
Reshape
the
cosmos
How to fund The Map: each node accepts donations, with BTC address
When $ > threshold and previous nodes solved, launch token.

68. Tokens fund the self-actualization of civilization (!!)
• Tap into the community that wants the advance
• Significant $$ because investment opportunity
• Prioritize (at least partly) with $, even faraway things
• Easy to tell where $ leads in context of graph
Clean drinking water
Waterless toilets
Solve malaria
Solve TB
Reduced
poverty: 99%
can eat
Trustworthy
land titles
…
…
Un-
scalable
AI AI that
improves with
data
(deep
learning)
Big data
AI takes
creative
jobs
Scalable
creative
AI
AI takes
basic
jobs
Go post-
capital
(UBI)
The 99%
can eat
The 99%
have no
income
Shared
planetary info
net
(Internet)
Shared planetary
document
(Web)
Shared planetary
encyclopedia
(Wikipedia)
Shared planetary
e-gold (BTC)
“Blockchain”
Shared planetary file
system (IPFS)
Shared planetary database
(IPDB)
Shared planetary processing
(Eth)
Shared planetary
computer
V
R
“Overlay” AR
goggles
“Repaint” AR
Basi
c
BCI
Fast-
type
BCI
AR contacts
SMing
DropBox your
brain
YouTube your
brain
BCI BW>
in-brain
New mind
substrate
Basic
space
flight
Low-$ to low-orbit
space
Low-$ to useful
space
(reuse rockets)
1 person on Mars
1K people on
Mars
1M people
on Mars
Mars not
dependent
on Earth
Super-low $
Earth-Mars
(cyclers)
Super-low $ to
useful space(elev)
Energy in space
(mine asteroids)
Explore the cosmos Reshape the cosmos

69. Conclusion

70. The Map helps civilization self-actualize
Crowd-sourced idea graph, funded by tokens
We not only address climate, jobs, AI...
We explore & reshape the cosmos!
Clean drinking water
Waterless toilets
Solve malaria
Solve TB
Reduced poverty: 99%
can eat
Trustworthy land titles
…
…
Un-scalableAI
AI that improves with
data
(deep learning)
Big data
AI takes creative
jobs
Scalable
creative AI
AI takes basic
jobs
Go post-capital
(UBI)
The 99% can eat
The 99% have no
income
Shared planetary info
net
(Internet)
Shared planetary document
(Web)
Shared planetary
e-gold (BTC)
“Blockchain”
Shared planetary file system (IPFS)
Shared planetary database (IPDB)
Shared planetary processing (Eth)
Shared planetary computer
VR “Overlay” AR goggles
“Repaint” AR
Basic BCI Fast-type BCI
AR contacts
SMing
DropBox your brain
YouTube your brain
BCI BW>
in-brain
New mind substrate
Basic space
flight
Low-$ to low-orbit space
Low-$ to useful space
(reuse rockets)
1 person on Mars
1K people on Mars 1M people on Mars
Mars not dependent
on Earth
Super-low $ Earth-Mars
(cyclers)
Super-low $ to useful space
(elev)
Energy in space
(mine asteroids)
Explore the cosmos Reshape the cosmos